Originally posted by rparmar I'm not sure what your point is. JPEG and TIFF have been around for 15 years or more and hard disk drives (commercially) for 50. But even if some perfect new file format or storage medium was to come along and render all others obsolete, you could automatically convert every file you own in your sleep. It's a complete non-issue.
5.5 floppies, 3.5 floppies, CD, DVD, ZipDisk, "thumb drive," hard drives etc. is part of the media shift. How man of these things are archival? Granted, 99.9999% of my stuff doesn't need archival quality.